Improvement in medical compounds or bitters



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE EMIL O. JURGENSEN, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS OR BITTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,009, dated February 3, 1874; application filed October 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, EMIL G. JiiRGENsEN, of Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a Stomach Bitters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same.

The nature of my invention consists in compounding certain materials, as hereinafter described; and to enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its composition and manner of manufacturing.

I use two barrels, one as a flavoring-barrel and the other as a mixing-barrel. The compounds that I put in the flavoring-barrel are as follows: One and one-half (1%) pound cardamom-seed; one and one-half (1%) pound cinnamon-bark; one-quarter pound (i) nutmeg three-quarters pound g) cloves, three-quarters pound (5;) white ginger; three-quarters pound (5%) bitter-orange peel three-quarters pound (-55) lemon-peel; threequarters pound (5, ga langa; one-quarter pound (i) fenuelseed.

This is to be put into the barrel with forty (40) gallons of French cologne spirits, and let stand fourteen (14) days; then drawn off, leav ing the sediment. The compounds that I put into the mixingbarrel are as follows: Twenty (20) gallons of the product of the flavoring-barrel, and mix with fifteen (15) gallons of French cologne spirits reduced to fifteen (15) degrees below proof 5 then add white-sugar sirup, (according to its strength,) so as to reduce to seventyfive (75) degrees below proof, and add two (2) gallons sugar color. Then mix well and bottle, seal, and affix trade-mark and label.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A compound composed of the ingredients herein set forth, compounded substantially as described.

EMIL O. JIIRGENSEN.

Witnesses:

OSCAR CLAY, A. S. Gnoss. 

